Abstract
We show that a surface group contained in a reductive real algebraic group can be deformed to become Zariski-dense, unless its Zariski closure acts transitively on a Hermitian symmetric space of tube type. This is a kind of converse to a rigidity result of Burger, Iozzi, and Wienhard.
Citation
Inkang Kim. Pierre Pansu. "Density of Zariski density for surface groups." Duke Math. J. 163 (9) 1737 - 1794, 15 June 2014. https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-2690696
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